Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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